AuthorTopic: Congregational Songs Help 2 (Read 22998 times)

I've already done a post on playing Congregational Songs. but here's another post. In this post I'm just gonna show the basic patterns found in Congregational Songs. I'll post the pattern w/ theory explanation, a chord version in C, then a list of as many songs that go with that pattern as I can think of. Now, this is how I play these songs. Others may play it different, but this is my way. I wish I had recordings, but I don't at this time, sorry.

1 / 1 chord *here, what u do is run a bass pattern in the LH while alternating major 1 and minor 2 chords in the RH, and u can also add in various RH runs* 3, 4, #4, 5, 6, b7, 7 / 1 chord, 2 chord, etc.(repeat)

These are the main chords for this pattern. In between the chords, you can run bass lines to fill the space. If you have a bass player, then this is mainly what u need to play. If you don't have a bass player, you have to experiment with different bass lines until you find something that works. You can see the bass lines that I suggest be played in between the chords marked with the * symbol.

Songs that go with this pattern: Victory is Mine, Somebody Prayed For Me, Send Down The Rain

This is probably the easiest pattern of all the Congregational songs. And again, many of the same chords, bass runs, and even the Vamp are the same as in the other 2 patterns. I'm noticing a little trend here, don't yall?

Songs that go with this pattern: I'm a soldier, The Devil Thought He Had Me, I Get Joy When I Think About, I Got So Much To Thank God For

1 / 1 chord *here, what u do is run a bass pattern in the LH while alternating major 1 and minor 2 chords in the RH, and u can also add in various RH runs* 3, 4, #4, 5, 6, b7, 7 / 1 chord, 2 chord, etc.(repeat)

This pattern starts off the exact same way as the first pattern. It has something a little different in the middle, then ends up the exact same way as the first pattern, including the Turnaround and Vamp.

Songs that go with this pattern: What A mighty God We Serve, I Come To Glorify The Lord

1 / major 1 *here, what u do is run a bass pattern in the LH while alternating major 1 and minor 2 chords in the RH, and u can also add in various RH runs* 3, 4, #4, 5, 6, b7, 7 / major 1 chord , 2 chord

or

1 / alternate major 1 and 4 chord *here, what u do is run a bass pattern in the LH while alternating minor 1 and 4 chords in the RH, and u can also add in various RH runs* 3, 4, #4, 5, 6, b7, 7 /(repeat)

I honestly don't like playing songs like this because the timing for the bass line is so weird. I would rather just play chords and let the bass player handle all the bass runs for this song. We don?t really sing it that much, but every now and then it shows up.

Songs that go with this pattern: I Got A Feeling, God Put A Rainbow In My Sky

Thanks T Block. I am trying to understand . In each pattern you start w/the "Main part of song" then you have 3 blocks of chords, the vamp and turnaround last. Is the "Main part of song" a summary of the song? what do you mean by main part of the song?

Thanks T Block. I am trying to understand . In each pattern you start w/the "Main part of song" then you have 3 blocks of chords, the vamp and turnaround last. Is the "Main part of song" a summary of the song? what do you mean by main part of the song?

I mean the part of the song that you open up with. Example, for the song "Victory Is Mine", the main part would be singing:

Victory is mine, Victory is mine, Victory today is mine, etc.

For the song "Glory Glory Hallelujah", the main part of the song is"

Glory Glory Hallelujah, since I laid my burdens down, etc.

The turnaround gets u back to the main part, and the vamp is when they repeat stuff like "I laid my burdens down" or "It's mine".

It just reminded me of GK300! Why don't you make a dvd series of all these- it will be a sellout man! then you just include a booklet of all this theory there.It would give you enough money to spend more time posting your new theory revelations here & us requesting more dvds--seriously man!!

TI'm new at reading chords, so can you help me out to clarify how to interpret what you wrote? where you put (*) which hand should be playing this, LH or RH? I think you're referring to the LH, but I want to be sure.

TI'm new at reading chords, so can you help me out to clarify how to interpret what you wrote? where you put (*) which hand should be playing this, LH or RH? I think you're referring to the LH, but I want to be sure.